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March 11 - 18, 1998

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Three stars

What Dreams May Come

(Polygram)

What Dreams May Come Based on Richard Matheson's 1979 novel, Vincent Ward's hugely ambitious film replicates the highs and lows of its dead hero's trip from Heaven to Hell in search of his suicide wife. First Christy and Annie (Robin Williams and Annabella Sciorra) lose their two children in a car crash; then, four years later, Christy is killed in the same way, Annie takes her own life, and Christy has to save her. Williams is (no surprise) a little soft-centered and Sciorra a little giggly, but no matter: together they prove that Hell is the absence of other people.
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